The Sun. — London, England, 1838-08-17 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR of er Majesty went in state yesterday to prorogue the Session arliament by a speech from the throne. t , ffhe Royal procession was formed at half-past one o'clock in )0. ollowing order • —The first carriage, drawn by six greys, Hon. Colonel Masters, W. C. Fowle, Esq., and the tc • Heneage Legge, Gentlemen Ushers, and Mr. Parker !by a‘• ttall, the Exon in Waiting. The second carriage, drawn ,'%nset of bays, contained Captain Seymour, Groom of the es, and Colonel Reid, Silver Stick in Waiting. In the third carriage, which was drawn bix were the Hon. f,,Taariting ;onel Cavendish, Clerk Marshal; Hon. Major Keppel, .ruom in Waiting ; Master Cavendish, Page of Honour in and Colonel Buckley, Equerry in Waiting. The VGold carriage, drawn by a set of bays, contained Lord Hill, e_ldr Stick in Waiting, the Earl of ilchester. Captain of the 0 sen of the Guard, the Earl of Surrey, Treasurer of the Household ; the Right H on. G . S tevens Byng, Comptroller y ° l no Household. The fifth carriage, drawn by six blacks, -ttained th e M archioness of Normanhy and Lady Barham, -.lathes of the Bedchamber; the Duke of Argyll , Lord "ward ; and Lord Gardne, Lord in Waitin. Her Majesty left the state r rooms leaning on g the arm of the -. Buckley, o f B elfast, Vice- Chamberlain, and preceded by Colonel Buckley, E querry in waiting; the Hon. Colonel Cavendish, ' Clerk Marshal ; the Earl of Albemarle, Master of the Horse ; and Lord Gardner, Lord in Waiting. Her Majesty's train was supported by Captain Seymour, Groom of the Robes, and Master Cavendish Page of Honour in Waiting. The Queen Wore an armlet with the motto of the most noble Order of the Garter. Her Majesty had also a diamond stomacher and cir clet. The Mistress of the Robes and the Ladies in Waiting attendeda her M a j est y to th e s t a t e coach, which her Majesty en teredquarter before two o'clock. The Duchess of Suther land, Mistress of the Robes, and the Earl of Albemarle, Mas ter of the H orse , sa t o pp os ite to her Majesty. The band of the grenadier guards, who were on duty with the Queen's guard in front of the palace played " God save the Queen," and • continued playing till the Queen had passed under the marble r eh• The state coach was preceded bythe Queen's Marshal n len, the Queen's Footmen, and the Yeomen of the Guard, in th eir coronation costume. The Life Guards escorted the state oee'istion, and the band of the regiment were stationed in the Par k. near the palace. The Crown was conveyed to the House of Lords in one of t he Roy a l ' carr i ages b y Mr. Martins, Gentleman Usher to her , 'lajesty. Her Hajesty returned to the Palace 25 minutes past three l 'el nck, and was rece i ve d by the Vice-Chamberlain and the Mast er o f t h e H ousehold. Aric}! 'r Majesty gave audiences to the Master of the Horse, the Ntle. : ., 6 7 .4 4araberlain, and Colonel Lambert, Field Officer in con,, "e Yeomen of the Guard who lined the Grand Hall, were 'e i lla nded by M r . Ell ert h or p e , th e Clerk of the Cheque. to ,'"er I Majestv rode out on horseback yesterday afternoon, be- A . ,, e eerl „five and half-past six o'clock, accompanied by her Se niehness the Princess Hohenlohe, and attended by the .-,ar ° n• Miss Murray, Baroness Lehzen, Miss Quentin, Lord dn er, Hon. Co Cavendish, Earl of Surrey, Hon. Major AP er a l, and Colonel Buckley. the „ Majesty h a d a di nner party l as t even i ng . A mongs t Xe r , f -cirti Pany were th e i r R o y a l Hi g hnesses the Duchess of Pr i and n' the D u k e o f Sussex, her Serene Highness the and bourne oss T Hohenl o h e , C ount S enfft, D u k e o f D evons hi re, E ar l wit ess of Alb emarle, Earl of Surrey, V i scount Mel andl3 r -lord Gleuelg, L or d H o ll an d , L or d an d L a d y B ar h am, tr, ,'`_-'rd John Ch. p. : 11 " , e• band of the urchill Ist Life Guards was in attendance at the durin the evening. , e Jla Sereneg Highness the Prince of Hohenlohe left town I)o4__Lerday afterno on , to pay a v i s i t to her Majesty the Queen / Tiger, at Bushy Park. Isle or John Russell left town yesterday afternoon for the Wight. Viscount Howick left town yesterday morning. -I‘A-SIIIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. DEPARTURES. Lu c .. 1 Countess of Wintert on , an d L a d y Ch ar l otte Tur si" f or Shillingl ee P ar k , the seat of the Earl of Winterton; trri4l. Tierney, Bart., an d f am il y, f rom Bruton -street, for t°n Lord Plunket, the Hon. William Plunket, and the Ron. the Misses Isabella and Louisa Plunket, from English's Iyal Hot e l , f or Dublin; Mr., Mrs., and Miss M'Causland, r4l ditto, fo r L eamington Spa; Richard M'Causland, Esq., f ro m ditto, fo r D u bli n ; J. M. M'Cleod, Esq., and Lady, Cal in ditto, for Edi n b urg h ; L a d y L . Bl osse, f rom ditto, for GI Gilbert Kennedy, Esq., and family, from ditto, for la 4 , 4 24° W ; the E ar l o f G os f or d f or G os f or d C ast l e, in Ire ,. ; Mr. George Lane Fox for Scarborough; Mr. Mel 1-,?e ,°n a tour ; Lord Clifford for Ugbrook Park, Chudleigh, iviriuevonsihire; Lord Bolingbroke for Lyddiard Park, in ;I shir e; Mr. A. Erskine for Forfarshire ; Captain Hugh d lsl o t 4 ain Yfo; Suff o lk ; th e E ar l of Euston for Salcey F orest , i n tonshire ' • Lord Algernon St. Maur, for Wimble_ u,Lis.nt.-General Sir Harry Duff for the North ; Lieut._ '''Yndham for Sussex ; Mr. David Ker and Lady Selina ICer for their seat in Surrey ; Sir John and Lady Johnstone (114 °- „ tc " .l - 1. ; Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Miss hlitford for ' l % - in-the.Marsh, Gloucestershire. ARRIVALS. f e rn a P,lfain and Mrs. Macdonald, at English's Royal Hotel, te rcr b - „ '-alcutta ; Captain Charles Peterson, at ditto, from Can str. " r '3'; Colonel Vernon, C. 8., at ditto, from Hilton Park, affordshire • Messrs. Jobez, Myers, and Parson, at ditto ""4 Li„ ' ford , r Pol; Alexander Reid, Esq., at ditto, from Hors front' El' e ll n e ; a h lre; Captains Macartney and Mudie, at ditto, Her Ni 'Palace forlvalestY New Itivaein thre, it is ex and the Court will leave the -indsor Castle to-morrow morning, and will re will 4 the y ce [ e i d ec t t o ed ß , r u ig n h ti t l on th . e third week in October, Th pro len , ! e quiPages of Prince Esterhazy and his Excel thoseee Ottoman Ambassador were the most splendid among of gittk _ yethe corps diplomatique at the ceremony of the proro uu sterday. T he Marqui s of Lansdowne's last dinner for the a se li a ",;' ° ° " Lansdowne House, was given to Lord s Il c h es t er , Mr pr. 413_, srouheringdon, e Sir Geor ge 'Grey, Mr. Vernoa Smith, a nd i :,. Yi t i t 'e Duk e o f W ellington will pay his usual annual Walmer C astle, in Kent, in a few days. t i,el4d°r(l Thomas C ec il an d hi s no bl e b r id e h ave ar- i : at Dover from Hastings, on their route to the continent. Tamil i-dord and Lady Feversham have arriv e d a t th e Itft3Y seat, Duncombe Park, in Yorkshire, from town. 11 e Crown Prince Maximilian of Bavaria and suite of l i s b q Weeks' residence here, has left town for his chateau 'eh -i°,;',eonswangen, near Munich. His Royal Highness tra , P ri l 9. '-.x.tr e Marquis of Brignole, Sardinian Ambassador Pult 4 : l inary, and his lady and daughter will . leave the of 1, e ;; ► " Hotel to-morrow for Turin, having had his audience e Of her Majesty. 110 T he Marquis of Abercorn will leave Byham t o 11,18 e, Brighton, after the accouchement of the . Marchioness, 1 )0 0 Prese nt at the marriage of her first cousin, Lady Fanny to 'IL". daughter of the Earl of Morton, to N isco . unt le tb li ''est son of Earl Fitzwilliam. The nuptials will be so- Wsed at Dalmahoy House, Mid Lothian. 1 4 '°unt Zavadowsky has left Crawley's Hotel for Mi k,r,The Countess remains in town a few weeks longer. t ow 'lle Due de iVlaille and Lord Castlereagh left c o . w n e o s. Tuesday to dine with the Royal Yacht Squadron at t ior T ,he Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and 1., Q Seaham have left Holdernesse House, on a tour in the "t of Wight. The Noble and Gallant Marquis has been el gayB occupied of late in preparing his new work for the . pre ti General Lord William Bentinck left Vernon °use, i n t h e Green Park, on Wednesday, for his shooting I tl arters in Sutherlandshirc, where his Lordship will enter tain a party next week. _, The Hon. Fulk e G rev ill e l e f t F a l mouth on Satur day last for Quebec, in the Charlotte yacht, purchased of the Marquis of Waterford. The Earl of Yarborough and party returned to Cowes roads o n T ues d ay f rom a cruise ; his Lordship presided at the yacht squadron dinner on the same day. The late C oun t ess o f Essex's mansion, in Hill atreet, will be tenanted by the Hon. Col. Anson, Storekeeper- General of the Ordnance, who has taken it fur a term. His Serene fli!: , hiless the P r i nce o f H o h en l o h e left the town yesterday afternoon, to pay a v i s i t to h er M a j esty Queen Dowager at Bushy Park. The M arquis of Lansdowne leaves town to-morrow r fO %wood Park. ~,,• THE DEVIL'S OPERA.—We have much pleasure f announcing that the native musical talent of England has at heangth achieved a triumph of no ordinary kind. This Opera, dZing undrgone some very judicious curtailments and emen t nnts under the direction of Messrs. Baker and Wieland, ca°:" of a run of success, unprecedented, except in the z ni ,.? e,f Der Freischutz. The music appears to run more " e tnlY, the pantomimic tricks and incidents arc more e°lld en' d and easy, and the characters and plot are more fully d' e bi g h t eveloped than on the first night of its production. Last Is . a a crowded and most fashionable audience testified their singularl t etion with the musical and melodramatic merits of this iiar with among whom we observed the Marquis and of ~,nitioness of Londonderry, the Duke of Beaufort, the Earl h.. Cheater Londonderry, and Lords Monson and Segrave. It is to be 411'ped that the arduou s task which the Committee of Manage krl_ ! the English Opera House has undertaken will now tjet_ w ith its w e ll- mer i ted reward; and that by the run of It°,4-)._ its O pera, d uring e O the remainder o f t h e season, the their o f thei r treasury will be able to compen sate t h em for l i t ss es , h i therto, in catering for the public taste , RW STRAND THEATRE.---Freclerick 9f Prussia, , The • ha s bee King and the Comedian, a light and laughable trifle by Selby, theseboo produced at this theatre for the purpose of introducing upon or that ards Mr. Tilbury, of Covent-garden Theatre, in the character tal.i eccentric and puissant monarch. The part is well suited to his ,I ki n s ,n and he performed it throughout with great humour and effect; b„ ,!14 g, particutariy in the scenes with Stolbach (admirably personated iir:l-41Toon), the heartiest laughter , as also well-deserved applause. 41 4 . Lee performed an Austrian captain, with an unspeakably long adth.antui_i:r4eir,kyscleverly. The little part of Brochette (a cook) wag very 3,6: . ply sustained by Mr. Attwood. But little was to be done by and Miss Treble in the Countess ?lotzen and Camilla, but ( t enet, little was done well. The piece was highly relished by the au. an d ~,,,•:., iuder2d, evertt the 1 reec.thog p!ec , , , T, C . ,:rrf,' ~ y .',,, !.. mantas' nation Strane, and that which concluded the evening's enter, 11_ Little Sin, and Pretty Sinners. From the appearance of the sul;;:e Should sunxnee that it receives a very liberal share of public IRELAND (FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, Ava. 15. MR. O'CONNELL ON THE THREE. IRISH QUESTIONS. This day a Meeting of the citizens of Dublin was held at the Corn Exchange to receive Mr. O'Connell, who arrived in town yesterday. The Meeting was convened by the following requisition : TO MY CONSTITUENTS. Merrion- square. I respectfully solicit a Meeting of my constituents at the I Corn Exchange this day, the 16th inst. at half-past one o'clock, to receive from me a statem -it of the manner in which I have endeavoured to perform my duty to them during the closing Session, and to consider of the ulterior measures to procure from the British Legislature " full justice for Ire land," or to provide for the contingency of a perseverance on the refusal of that Legislature to right the people of Ireland. Your faithful servant, DANIEL O'CONNELL. The meeting took place at the above hour, and Mr. O'Con nell was received with the greatest enthusiasm. The Chair was taken by JOHN GUTHERIE, Esq. MR. O'CONNELL-MEETING AT THE CORN EXCHANGE. This day, pursuant to a requisition addressed by Mr. O'Connell to his constituents, a numerous and highly respect. able meeting assembled at the Corn Exchange, for the pur pose of receiving from the Honourable and Learned Gentle man a statement of the manner in which he had endeavoured to discharge his duty during the Session of Parliament now about to close, and also to consider upon ulterior measures to procure from the British Legislature " full justice for Ireland, or to provide for the contingency of a perseverance in the re fusal of that Legislature to right the people of Ireland." At half-past one o'clock the shouts of the crowd below announced the arrival of the Learned Gentlemen, who, upon entering the room, was met by the most enthusiastic demon strations of popular favour. Having taken his usual place, and Mr. GUTUERIE being called to the Chair, and the requi sition havin g been read, Mr. OTONICELL rose, and after the cheering with which he was again greeted ceased, he thus addressed the meeting ; The requisition which you, Sir, have read was mine, and the subject of it I will proceed to offer at once to the considera tion of my constituents. lam delighted once again to stand amongst you.—( Cheers.) I love to breath my native air.— (Renewed cheers.) There are, and there ought to be, links I of affection binding me to my native land, which grow stronger and more tender from every temporary absence. I stand amid the scenes of many professional triumphs, and some political success. If I have been able in any degree to serve my country, it has but made her more dear to me.— (Cheers.) All the affections that make life precious sur round me here ; and if one bitter pang must arise, it is neutralized by the joy of renewing my vows and fidelity and attachment to the country of my birth.—( Cheers.) To be sure, views meet my sight, which are anything but cheering ; and melancholy sights obtrude themselves upon me. When yesterday I was walking through the stately streets of this city, admiring her domestic architecture, and looking with pride upon her wide and splendid squares, her vast ware houses, and all that delights the citizen, I could not but be struck with grief when, instead of increasing commerce and rewarded industry, that should have marked her at every step—a desolation met my eye, only interrupted by the me mentoes of squalid poverty that crossed my path—and I re membered the melancholy picture of the Latin poet, " Rams et antiguus habebatur in urbibus erat." " Rare and few are the inhabitants that walk through our cities."—( Hear.) This de solation, however, followed civil war and social strife; but the desolation of this my native city is not to be traced to fraternal feuds or civil war. No, Sir, we were sold and betrayed.— (Cheers.) I will confess it. I stand amongst you for the re peal of the Union..—(Tremendous applause.) Mistake me not. I will make one experiment more, and only one. There is in England a party liberal and intelligent, and in itself a numerous minority, who are for us. But, Sir, the hatred of this country is increased by malignant bigotry mixing with the national antipathy which there exists against us.—( Hear.) Day after day, it is on the increase. —(Hear, hear.) I think Wellington is growing more determined than ever in his con temptuous hostility to the rights of Ireland. lam sure Peel hates us more heartily, if possible, than before. I see grow ing stronger a spirit and a determination, not only to deny what we seek, but to take away all that we have of good.— ( Hear, hear.) It is under a consciousness of this that I stand before you now. Sir, the first topic I have to address you upon is connected with our entrance upon Parliament; and a cir cumstance I will have to relate will elucidate and demon strate my position. I will begin with the beginning, there can be nothing wrong in that.—(Cheers and laughter.) When we put our feet into the House we were seventy-three to thirty-two. That was our relative strength—or seventy three to thirty, I should rather say ; for the additional two were from the University of Dublin, and sent not from Ire land but against Ireland.—( Hear, hear.) There was nothing that intimidation or bribery, or the tyranny of landlords could achieve, that was left undone, to diminish that phalanx and increase our enemies. It failed, the Irish people made it fail. When lam told that the repeal of the Union is not at tainable, I point to what the voters of Ireland have done, and ask—Will the sons, and the brothers, and the fathers of such men consent to be willing slaves ?—( Cheers.) We, the Members for Ireland, were met by thirteen petitions. Of these but two were successful ; and how did they succeed ? By what I called elsewhere—what did I call it ?—( Laughter, amidst which a voice exclaimed, " Perjury.") Yes, I was repri manded for saying that—and I said it again. Aye, it was by the for swearing of the Tories they succeeded. Was ever anything like the Belfast case ?_( Hear, bear.) Gibson, with five hundred a year for ever, it was determined had not three hundred; and Emerson Tennent was found to have three hundred a year out of one hundred and fifty paid by tenants.—(Hear, hear.) This was the resolve of a Com mittee upon which no less than ten Tories found place. The Whigs attended well in my case. The conspiracy concocted under George Frederick Young's patronage was overturned by a body of English gentlemen. George Byng, that excel lent specimen of an English gentleman, venerable in the anti quity of his years, honourable in his unbinding integrity, and with the full flow of his intellect unimpeached and unim paired, assisted in giving a triumph to Dublin and to me.— ( Great cheering.) The Liberal party put in six petitions. Four were not proceeded with ; and of the two that were pro secuted we succeeded in onc.—( Hear.) A Tory Committee refused to proceed with the inquiry, which should have resulted in seatin g Mr. Brady. But i n th e T ra l ee cas e we had a victory. One of those absurd decisions which Tory lawyers sometimes make, had excluded my son from the representation of Tralee. The determination was too ab surd to be esteemed corrupt—no man would purchase in famy at such an expense of folly. Even a Tory Committee reversed the judgment, and the Queen's Counsel, who made the decision, must now be satisfied that be was wrong. Why do I mention these facts ? I have two motives. The first, to demonstrate the falsehood of the charges of intimi dation, corruption, and priestly influence brought against us. Every one of their petitions charged the Catholic clergy with almost every offence against the law of liberty of election. They stated that the priests had made the solemn sacraments of God political engines, and they elaborated their calumnies with a minuteness of detail that would almost force a belief that they had some grounds in reality. But they had tried ten, and were now trying the eleventh of these petitions, and did they prove any thing against the priests ? Nothing. —( Cheers.) In Water ford, one man swore that he would give up the petition for forty pounds, as the other side had only given him twenty.—( Cries of " Hear.") This was the only case in which they attempted to prove bribery against us ; and on the evidence of one of their own witnesses a Tory Committee was forced to dismiss the case. But my words will go forth to three hundred altars during the week; and I tell you that there is not a crime that could be attributed to men that the Tories, supported by two English Universit:e base not attributed to the Catholic clergy. Yes, clergymen of Ireland, the whole Tory confederacy, to the very youths of the University, were canvassed for sub scriptions, even to the amount of five shillings, in order to make a case against you. But their efforts demonstrated the bigotry of your opponents, and your purity.—(Cheers.) It bigotry were not at the bottom of it, could such a sum as the Spottiswoode fund amounted to, have ever been collected ? Hatred of your religion was the moving principle in their conspiracy. But they have tried eleven times to affix their foul charges upon you, and every time when the period for proof arrived they shrunk from even an attempt to sustain the falsehood, and their calumnies were aban doned. I have shown the groundlessness of the charges. I want, too, to let the people see the malignity of their enemies. When that writer, who so powerfully affects the human feelings and so forcibly pourtrays human actions, would picture the prison scene, he does not group together the inmates, but describes one solitary prisoner notching the board that marks the termination of another day, and looking with a dim but angry eye upon one who stands for a moment between him and his only comfort, the light of heaven. It is thus that I select isolated and solitary cases. The bigotry that could show itself as it has done in reference to Ireland, must have risen by its own putrescence. As the human body, after passing to a state of putrefaction, only rises as it rots, so rose to the top the bigotry of England from the stench and impurity of its own fcetid dregs. lam beginning a new career, and I proclaim at the commencement of it that my country shall not be put down.—(Cheers.) But I come before you to state what has been my course in Par liament. I did expect that before I should have seen you again I would have been sent to the Tower for the assertion of a principle; and if the Tories had the courage they ought to have sent me there.--( Hear, hear.) I did expect they would, and had made my arrangements for such a contingency. Let us recollect that the moral of my tale is, that the way to meet them successfully is to meet them directly. I will state to my constituents the progress of business through the House; for I am done with election petitions, and all the wickedness to which they gave rise. Three Committees were appointed early in the session, to inquire into matters interesting to us. The first was on the subject of fictitious votes—the second, upon joint-stock banks—and the third, upon combine. tion amongst workmen. The Fictitous Votes Committee I at tended every day, and every moment I could possibly do so ; and I have two facts to tell you from it that will please you. The Tories attempted to impeach the Longford voters; but we have demonstrated that they are good.—(Cheers.) They also attacked the King's County electors. Some had at tempted to question th e decisions of Mr. Gibson, but even the Tories were forced to bear witness to his honour and even in tegrity. It was shown that in a thirty pound rent there was jest the difference of one pound between the beneficial in terest, and tile rent that would be paid over and above by a solvent tenant. I did expect that Shaw would have brought some cases to show against my expose of the gross swindling of the people's rights in this city. But the fraud was indefen- THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1838 sible. If they admitted by birth, servitude, or marriage, it was legal and allowable ; but they call it a right when they choose to do wrong, and stand upon their imaginary privi leges. If we had an Irish Parliament could this last an hour ?—(Hear, hear, and loud cheering.) But I ant told it must last. lam told we must endure this anomaly longer. When I sought to make evident the rottenness of their system, I summoned as my witnesses men from their ()en body.—(Hear, hear.) Archer was one of my witnesses__ Long was another, and their own clerks of guilds were also produced by me. And yet Shaw complained that I had been enabled to call my witnesses, and that his were not in attendance. I shall call more witnesses the next meeting of Parliament. The Legislature shall decide upon the question ; and we shall either get rid of an evil or have a new proof of the necessity of self-government.—( Hear, hear.) Th e Joint Stock Banks Committee called some witnesses relative to the Bank of Ireland Charter; and I have been blamed for not having called additional individuals competent to give opinions on the point.—( Hear, hear.) But before anything shall be done to perpetuate the monopoly, a ll Ireland will have an opportunity of speaking out. Why should there be a monopoly of money-makers. In England they say that a national bank is necessary to regulate the ex_ changes, and control the export of bullion, so as to pre vent too much of it going out of the country. This is, a indeed, the only a rgumen t f or th e cont i nuance of such monopoly. But supposing it to be good, what bearing has it upon the Bank of Ireland? What bullion is exported from College-green, or what influence has the establishment there upon foreign exchanges? None. We areanataionnd, they say, and mus t h ave a nat i ona l b ank. In all other respects Ireland has been ma d e a province by. the Uni on , and they only i recollect that we a re a nat i on w h en t h ey would in flict the injury of a monopo l y upon us, and when the b an k of a party is t o b e up h e ld i n preference to a system of accom modation off ere d t o men of all sects and parties, creed, colour. I appeal to the instance of Scotland. Joint-stock banks spread in Scotland, and have not industry eld pros perity spread along with them ? If you had travelled as I have from Berwick to Edinburgh, and observed what has taken place there, you would have felt deeply the advantage of a free monetary system. Look at Lammermoor, now no longer a moor, and then turn to our wastes, still what it once was, before industry and enterprise were exerted by the healthy influence of joint stock banks, and then let any man tell me that these concomitant circumstances —monetary accommodation, and the advancement of a country's pros perity, are not cause and effect, and I will laugh him to scorn as a vain pretender in the science of political economy —( Hear, hear.) I mean no injury to any proprietor of the Bank of Ireland, nor to any officer or clerk 'of that establish ment.—( Hear, hear.) Let it continue as a chartered bank. I for one am anxious to see it prosperous, but not a monopoly. It may be said that I have an individual interest in the ques tion. Well, so I have; but it is as the head of a bank estab. lished with a view to the advantage of this country. lam de termined that capital shall be free, and that no man shall be refused the countenance of a banking establishment merely because he happens to be of a certain creed ; and I promise not to let the question rest until it is settled to the advantage of the people by the House of Commons.—( Hear.) One of the three Committees was that on combination—(Loud cries of " Hear")—and upon this subject I have a right to say something, for there is no doubt that it was a source of obloquy with regard to myself. But in return for any unmerited im putations which may have been cast upon me,'l have the satis faction to feel that my efforts have been rewarded with at least some success. Yes, Sir, I look with pleasure to the efforts I have made upon this subject.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") I can fearlessly say, in the first place, that, by the course I had taken, I sought no unworthy popularity--on the contrary, I incurred the displeasure of my countrymen, whose very errors I respect, because I know that they were founded in a misconception of the facts, and the consequences connected with the great question at issue.— ( Hear, hear.) I love my countrymen, and I ought to love them, and it was that esteem for them, and a sense of public duty, that induced me to grapple with a subject whereby I risked my own popularity, and enlisted the prejudices of many honest men against me ; but, as I have said, the result has re paid me. In November last I commenced my exertions, and even then there was scarcely a week that some outrage or violence of one kind or another, arising out of combination, did not take place. But in saying this now, lam not making a charge against any man. I then made no charge against any individual ; it was the system I grappled with ; and I trust I have succeeded in opening the eyes of many honest but mistaken men as to the course they were pursuing. The very day before our memorable meeting at the Royal Exchange, a man was assaulted in the streets through the effects of combi nation. Since that no outrage of the kind has taken place in Dubin. It may be said, indeed, that this happy state of things is owing to the existence of the new police force. I do not want to detract from the merits of this excellent insti tution, and some share of merit may be due to them in this case too. They are out by day and by night in your streets, and everywhere through your city, and outrages of the kind could not take place with impunity. But I attribute the mo ral change that has taken place more to having the minds of men of worth and sound understanding aroused to a sense of that duty, which should teach every man to set his face against the horrible system of combination—so it is that men who have been my bitterest opponents have become most valuable adjuncts in putting an end to it—even amongst the corporators this has been the case.—(Cheers.) Free capital, free trade, free labour, freedom in every moral sense is my motto ; and the honest tradesmen, who might have a temporary per sonal interest in keeping up the monopoly of labour, must unite with me. Freedom and a good understanding be tween the labourer on the one hand, and the capitalist on the other, should always exist, and there is little doubt that trade would flourish.—(Loud cheers.) But the moment art attempt is made to raise wages by compulsion that mo ment the prospects of trade are blighted.—( Hear, hear.) I have been all my life working against monopoly and aristo. cracy, and any attempt to force wages by compulsion is the worst sort of monopoly. Those who do so are the aristocracy of trade, and against aristocracy I war, no matter whether dressed in lace and ruffles, or in a working apron and paper cap.—(Loud cheers.) Well, a Committee sat to inquire into the momentous question of combination, and no one can say that the workman did not get fair play in that inquiry. I may here state that facts of the deepest interest to Irishmen and to the trade of Ireland have been there proved. It ha s been clearly demonstrated that combination had the effect of introducing Englishmen and Scotchmen into the country, who are now doing the business and employed in the works in which Irishmen ought to be engaged.•—( Hear, hear, and cheers.) We have proved, Sir, the introduction of strangers, Englishmen and Scotchmen, into the country; but we have proved more—we have proved that trade has been banished from us in some particular branches of business, and that it has gone to England and Scotland, and some of the Irish ma ritime ports, in consequence of the existence of combination in Dublin. In every port of note upon the channel, ship-build. ing has increased save one, and that is Dublin..—( Hear.) In Dublin it is extinct, and the cause may be traced to a hor rible and atrocious murder that was perpetrated by the ship_ carpenters in the open day, upon one of their own trade, because the unfortunate man had the name of being a colt, or having worked at a lower rate of wages than the trade directed.—( Hear, hear.) His wife was left screaming, and his children wailing; and the murderers escaped punishment, save such as God, in his mercy, never fails to inflict, either through penitence or suffering. —( Cheers. ) Since that horrible murder a blight has fallen on the trade of ship-building ; and wi.ilst at Drogheda, twenty miles north of Dublin, men are making a fortune, of ship-building, there is not. I believe, a single vessel being built in Dublin at present. In Gasgow, Greenock, Belfast, and Drogheda, the trade is flourishing, whilst in Dublin, alas ! there is nothing to be done. There is another circumstance connected with the combination which deserves to be mentioned here, and that is, the ques tion of apprentices.—(Hear, hear.) I have said before, and I here repeat it again, that it is most foolish and most unjust to interfere with the apprentices at all.—( Hear, hear.) Apprenticeship to a trade is in point of fact education, and that education of the most useful kind, both as relates to society and the apprentice himself ; and what, I ask you, would be said to the man who, in this age of letters and civi lization, would attempt to limit education, and say to his neigh bour—" You, Sir, shall not teach your son to read and write— you shall not educate him ?" He would be called, and called most truly, a savage. The man who says that his neighbour's child shall not learn a trade, or become apprentice to whatever line of business may be best suited to him, is a greater savage ; for, as I have already said, he deprives him of an opportunity of learning a branch of knowledge even more useful than reading and writing. Such interference is foolish, criminal and unjust. See with regard to the trade of which I have been speaking, the shipbuilding, what a melancholy picture Dublin presents. Here we have only 20 apprentices in that line, and indeed I believe there is nothing built here but a few boats, and the apprentices are not wanted ; whilst in Liverpool there are 2,400 ship carpenters' apprentices. That was their n umber the other day when they turned out, at the Coronation, in honour of the Queen. They assembled in their new clothes, and spent a day in amusing themselves in honour of our lovely little Queen, and G o d k nows th e y w e re r ight. Sir, this is the comparative state of those two trades in Dublin and Liverpool ; h ere we h ave twenty apprent i ces b e l o nging to it in Dublin, w hil s t i n Li verpoo l t h ey h ave two t h ousan d four acid than I t rus t t h at t h ere i s an en d to com bi nat i o n, than when honest men come to see the melancholy results that have flowed from it, the evil will right itself. I want no,. harsh l aws , no severe measures against the working man, I wish that that great moral power which is capable of triumph ing in every case, may triumph here too, and that there may be an end put to intimidation and brute force. Let them cease intimidation and an interference with the rights of others, and then they may combine as much as they like. Such, Sir, has been my course, and you will say that between the three Corn mittees—( Hear, hear)—one on fictitious votes—one on com bination, and the other upon joint stock banks—in attending to t t Fi b er e oa m imi y to 12 t l go i h v4 a e d e av e ne n r ayocucgoh I u n t t o do.ofh in And l u s h e e d r e to allow o%v spend m e p m a r y e ih e t ) t rile day, was regular attendance at the Com mittees. On Saturdays I attended to the business of the Bank of which I am a director. After going h ome from the Committees I too k a hasty dinner and pro ceeded to the House, and f rom t h e hour that it opened until twelve or one o'clock I was never absent..—(Cheers.) By the time I got home and to bed it was generally two o'clock. Then, a man at my time of life requires some sleep (althoug h I was never fond of it—l never took over-doses of it) —so that it was generally nine o'clock when I was dressed and ready for breakfast. It:was ten when I had done breakfast, and read a small portion of the letters which I receive. Then from ten to twelve, heaven help me !—( Hear and laughter.) I don't exaggerate when I say that I gerer.slly got tkin hun -pbeentcnTpupslvflat ieft my house, the regular postman. There never d w r l e ra d t l i e g tt o c t " b o y i th a e d t a w y •O and what a ha m t a a n re w d h e o li h ve a r s ed be b e y n so besieged by persons looking for places. No man asked me, to be sure, to get him a bishopric, although I have been positively asked for places in the Church.—(Laughter.) There is not an office, from Lord High Admiral down to scavenger, that I have not been asked for.—( Laughter.) But heaven help the applicants l for it is little I can do for them. The Government has been so repeatedly accused of being in league with me, and under my influence, that it has caused a re-action against me—and I believe there is not a single man who votes with them who has got less from them than I have.—( Here the Honourable and Learned Gentleman laid his hand on Mr. Pat Costelloe, who was beside him.) have, to be sure, got something that I like very much.— (Laughter.) I take this opportunity of informing my nume rous correspondents that it is quite impossible that I could answer all, or even the one-half of their letters. It is quite un reasonable that they should think I could do so ; and I beg most unfeignedly to say that nothing can give me more pain than that any of my countrymen, who write to me, should for a moment imagine that I would be capable of treating them in an unkind or uncourteous manner. Let this then be my pub lic apology to ail my friends; they will see it in print in the course of the week, and I trust it will satisfy them. So much for the parenthesis. I will now come to other topics, and the first subject I shall touch upon shall be the Poor-law.— (Hear, hear.) My opinion wzs against the measure brought into Parliament, and I only hope that I may be disappointed in that opinion.—(Hear, hear.) I did all that was in any power to avert the iv its which I believed would flow from it. I acquitted my conscfce, and if it should turn out as I an ticipated, I will have nothing to answer for. I was at one time their advocate—the miseries of the poor and the heartless conduct of the landlords drove me to it; but when I came to examine the subject in detail, and to trace out the consequences that I know in my soul would flow from the measure proposed, I became opposed to it. When I found that it would decrease Irish capital—that it would not procure employment for the people, and that the money raised was chiefly to be swallowed up by Poor-law Commissioners, by chaplains, and by building workhouses, and by all the ma chinery necessary to work it, I opposed it in every way I could.—( Hear, hear.) The whole plan is of the most expen sive Kind, and the greater part of the money will go, not to the support of poor, but to the payment of persons holding places under the Poor-law Bill.—( Hear, hear.) The cost of chaplains alone will be twenty thousand a year.—( Hear, hear. ) I have been taunted with having changed my opinion on the question. It is true I have, and more than once; but I give now the answer which I have given before, and it is this, that the sufferings of my country have impelled me to giving my assent to some scheme of miti g ating them : but when I cam e to look narrowly into details, I shrunk back from the prospect. I thought 1 saw the impossibility of carrying them into use ful effect. However, I might have been mistaken—l sin cerely hope I was. I shall be most happy to find the new law working well. Not one of its advocates shall rejoice at its success more sincerely than myself, and I do not hesitate to avow my anxiety that it shall have a fair trial. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman continued to say that he had never taunted any man with change of opinion, for he despised the man who would continue in error for the sake of a miserable consistency. With regard to Poor-laws, he would add that while England was working herself oat of Poor-laws she was working us into them. He next touched upon the Canada question, and said he opposed Lord John Russell when he would take from the Canadians the power of disposing of their own money, but when they broke into acts of violence, and shed blood, he gave up any interest in their case till Lord Durham Rent out among them. He was the disciple of a new doctrine which was adapted to the present age of the world, and taught nations to conquer without the sword. When rebellion succeeded it led to military despotism; and when it failed,—a s in Ireland in 1798,—t0 ferocious and sanguinary slaughter. With these feelings he could listen calmly to the sneers of Roebuck, who in his ignorance confounded the United Irishmen and Irish Volunteers.—( Cheers and laughter.) After adverting to an attack lately made on him by the grocers of Dublin, and explaining the part he had taken in their behalf, he said, with regard to the new Tithe Bill, he was totally op - posed to it, and refused to accept it even as an instalment. If England would maintain an Established Church in this country for one-tenth of the people, let them pay for it.—( Cheers.) Peel, Shaw, and Lcfroy were anxious to give money to the parsons, but he was glad to say that something had been se cured in return for the people, for if the costs were settled, not one farmer in Ireland would have a penny of tithe to pay. The demand in future would be upon the land lord, and the parson could not send his proctors to the tenant. They had got rid of the arrears and the claims upon the occu pier, and they had also cut off 130,0001. a-year from the tithe tax.—( Cheers.) He had offered to pay his tithes, to put the parsons in good humour, and induce them to join with him, but t hey refused to accede to his terms, and he had never paid them one penny, thoue.h it was reported he had done so. He feared the parsons would not join them in the intended experiment, for he knew an instance e here a tenant offered to pay the parson 75 per cent., and he would not accept it. He wanted equal justice with the people of Scotland and England, for they were only called upon to support their own clergy men- He was opposed to any payment from Government to the Catholic priests, and he would resist as far as any man the schem e , w hi c h it was absurdly said he favoured, of transferr- in; to them the tithes. He would resist because he believed it would necessarily corrupt them. He would next call the attention of the meeting to the proposed Corporation Bill, and he was proud to say 1-le helped to kick it out. The present Corpora tion of Dublin was most corrupt, for it made fictitious voters by a system of wholesale fraud, for the purpose of obtaining a majority in the City. The people of Dublin bad sufficient reasons for being opposed to the Corporations, but nevertheless Mr. ShaW declared in the House of Commons that the people of Dublin were opposed to the reform of that body.— ( Lau g ht er .) The 'Bill which was thrown out was an artful on e . H e was in Birmingham when it came on, and he regretted to find that Lord John Russell had per mitted a clause, perpetuating the freemen, to stand part of the Bill. In that shape it went to the Lords; and he rejoiced that it was thrown out. He was happy that he had helix,ed had see slavery abolished—(Cheers)—and he rejoiced that participated in the battle which had brought vic tory to the cause of freedom.—(Cheers.) Mr. O'Connell next adrerted to the present position of parties, and said that between the Whigs and Tories the people of Ireland would be overlooked if they did not rely upon themselves. The Duke of Wellington was their great enemy. It was a deplorable thin, that Ireland had ever produced him. It would be written upon his grave that his ark of glory floated upon Irish blood, and that he used his power only to crush his countrymen and the engines of his success. — ( C h eers.) If the Tories were able to seize upon office, little good could be hoped from them for this country; on the contrary the people would see the Bench posses,ed by their most violent and relentless enemies, and the Magistracy- again a horde of partizans. To arrest v:'eer Tories o preventedries out of from office. doi l n f g t s} the e b Tories r the ies l came arge into pwer, the those evils, he s till su pp orted the p resent M i nistry. — ( Cheers. ) He rejoiced th at the Queen was favourable t o them ; the Mi nistry and the Lord Licutenent, wer e a l so anxious to assist them, butthey t t m i ncr ity in the House of Commons, an d b y t h e power f u l ma jority in the House of Lords. Th e y, however, achieved one god Belgian uncle of the Queen would tremble on his throne. The Holy Alliance wanted to bin d him by the o,ot they kept treaty of 1831, which was only to remain in force for three months, if not accepted within that time by the King of Hol land. Seven yeas had elapsed, and the King of Holland had , the support of not accepted it, but still the Holy Alliance wanted to force it on Leoreld. The repeal of the Union between Holland and Belgium, was most beneficial to the latter county. Catholics and Protestants phire there on an equality, and the Minister of the Interior, mself a Catholic, brought in a Bill for the aPro testant The time minister in 13russe was come, when they should agitate, and on Saturday, he would lay his plan of a pre society before them, to agitate until they obtained paratory would move in November, their rights. He _ . that 200 Deputies endowment of a Peotestant Church, and should be sent from Ireland, with petitions for their rights. Those Gentlemen would go through England, and endeavour to impress on the minds of the English people, a sense of the wrongs endured by Ireland, and if they were not successful, he would once again raise his voice for a repeal of the union..— (Great cheers.) After some further observations from Mr ay, when he s to introduce his p lan for a " Preparatory As soc i at i on. " O'Connell , the meeting adjourned until Saturday, i . LORD 'WESTMEATH AND MR. O'CONNELL. In the Evening Mad of this evening, the following letter from Lord Westmeath appears. As Mr. O'Connell will doubtless reply, I send it to you. It is written with so much point and force, that I question if it be really the pro duction of the Hereditary Legislator:— TO THE ELECTORAL.BODY OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN. - - - - Many of you will have seen the covert personal attack which was made upon me in the House of Commons on Mon day last by one of the sitting Members for your city, Mr. Daniel O'Connell. The Parliamentary report in the news papers contains it. If I show you, and I think I can do it in a short space, that he has used his privilege of a scat for the city, in this instance, where no public end was to be an swered, for the purpose of making a wanton and unmanly attack upon me, I conceive he has by this act, if he had by nothing else, disentitled himself to expect the support of any man of common honesty, or, indeed, endued with the ordinary feelings of humanity; but the out rage is even aggravated by an assumed pretext of jealousy for the public money, which makes it the more detestable. I shall first observe, that it appears his speech did not procure the support of any Member, English, Scotch, or Irish. The motion was made to postpone the third reading of the Pensi ons ' Bi ll to Tuesday, that the mover might, in the mean time, prepare a Clause to place the Marchioness of Westmeath's p , :nsion in abeyance until my death. H e, con fessedly th e most expert lawyer of the day, deman ded, in form, twenty-four hours' delay to prepare a clause, which the most inexp er i enced M. P. could have composed on the mo ment—five short lines would have sufficed. But though he had time to turn in his mind the materials to blacken m e in a well.considcred speech, and to make refer ences, he would have the House to believe it was not to make the speech he had risen, so much as to obtain 24 hours' post ponement to do that, which even a schoolboy could perform in five minutes. Well, he knew that his clause would not be entertained, ev en if prepared and proposed ; and he was just as w ell aware th a t th e Chancellor of the Exchequer would not stop the progress of the Pensions' Bill for such a "Pose. The debate shows it. But further— the proposition that Mr. O'Connell had sketched was to abate the pension during any life, and that it should be revived if Lady Westmeath s hould survive me. Now, if it had been a wish to effect a saving of the public money that actuated him, Mr. O'Connell (having had a knowledge of t h " of this pension ever since t he p;:p , ers were first pri n t e d in the early part of the Session) hau several months to ascerta i n the public grounds on which he sho uld have moved i n t h e matter. The slightest disposition to inquire would have enabled him to know, that in the event of my death, Lady Westmeath has a jointure of 3,0001. a year, Irish currency. secured to her; and it is upon such a contingency that he proposes a pension should revive, which, until then, was to be abated—that is, now, while he states she is in comparative poverty, it was to be taken from her, and (in the interest of the public) to be given back in an event when she could not possibly want it. The hypocrite And he could not be ignorant of the fact of the existence of that jointure, for my title has been before him with a statement of incumbrances; and it is not in human nature that, meditating such a speech, the facts should not have occurred to his vigorous memory. But finally, after having emitted his venom, he withdrew his motion. However, this is not the worst. Of all men exist ing, Mr. O'Connell is the very last who should have made such a personal attack upon me, as you will presently see. It is true I have with perseverance, to the utmost of my power, ex posed in Parliament the pernicious effects on society of this bad man's influence upon the Government of the country. In his tour of mischief through the north of England and Scot land, 1 was subjected by name, as a Member of the House of Lords, to the compliment of his low-lived, vulgar abuse— since then, also, in some of his speeches, to the same distinc tion, and in such terms as no one who had been born and bred a gentleman, could have stooped to use. I have had, there fore, the right and the leisure to analyze the vow in heaven from which the foul-mouthed hypocrite obtains his impunity; and I ask you, fellow -countrymen, whatever may be your political opinions, whether it is humanly possible that a man can have registered a vow with the God of peace, of justice, and of mercy, who knows no measure in the indulgence of private malignity, when provoked by the offence of merely political opposition—who stops at no thing as far as his great talents, so hellishly, perverted, can enable him to go, to indulge in attacks upon the private cha racters of political opponents? If not, then you have a well defined coward for your Member, and I do not see how any other conclusion can be arrived at. The miscreant has stepped beyond the sphere of ordinary men, merely by the force of his talents : it has not beer, by their legitimate use. He has by fraud, perjury, and'impudence, embodied a system to deprive property of its due share of representation for Ire land in the House of Commons, and to substitute his own nominees (most of them not even qualified), all for the avowed purpose of ulterior and endless aggression against the Protes tant institutions of the country. Does it not behove every Protestant who is not a fool or a knave to resist him ? Inas much as I, then, for one, have put my shoulder to the collar to do so, I am become a peculiar object of his vindictive hate, and what is more, of the never-sleeping malice of those ministers of peace, his fellow-labourers, the Roman Catholic priests ; for in every parish where I have property, they never suffer any, the slightest occasion to pass, which is afforded them, of promoting dissension between me and my tenants; while their altars are profaned by coaxing and threats to extract the money of my tenants, and the tenants of others, to put it into the pocket of this demoniac, that he may, vulture-like, live in affluence, without industry, and continue to disturb the peace of society here, and proclaim to foreign nations the shame of Great Bri tain and of its Administration, which permits such a nuisance to exist in its bosom, not only unabated, but nourished for those purposes which no individual of the Government would dare to avow, but which the Government collectively cannot deny, and of which it is convicted d a ily, f rom sunr i se to sunset. I come now to the next cause of Mr. - O'Connell's everlasting shame, as connected with this transaction, if anything could shame so abandoned a villain. He has in his speech referred to l i certain suits and decisions in the ecclesiastical courts in Eng land, between me and the Marchioness of Westmeath, thus wantonly reviving before the public, matters into which the public never inquire, except when before the tribunals of the country ; and which, of all men, he should have abstained from alluding to, because his own treachery, when my paid ad vocate, mainly led to the result it now suits him to exsult in. In the progress of these suits, and in January 1825, I found it necessary to institute criminal proceedings for conspiracy against several of the witnesses sent from this country to sus tain some of the allegations preferred against me. There were five persons of them indicted at the Sessions of Green-street, for conspiring by false evidence to sustain those imputations, and the attorney of Lady Westmeath was indicted for the same offence along with them. Mr. O'Connell was one of my counsel. The trial lasted two days. When near its conclusion, all my counsel (they were five) were invited to leave the Court, and to confer in an ad joining room, and I was requested to attend them. The case was nearly ready to go to the jury, and Mr. O'Connell then made the unprec e d en t e d p ro p osa l to me, when in the agony of suspense as to a result which I considered of more importance than my lfe, to allow Lady Westmeath's attorney to be ac quitted, by way of ensuring the conviction of the rest. This proposal came from himself. It was not made in concert with any other of my counsel, who are all now living, and can con tradict me if I misstate it. One of them, the present Master a the Rolls, who, although it has been my lot to differ with him in politics, I owe it to truth to say, is an ornament to his country as a lawyer and a judge, openly opposed the proposal. His words to me, said in the hearing of those present, were—" Hold him on, Lord West meath." However, Mr. O'Connell blustered, and his recommendation prevailed. The agent was enlarged, under these suspicious circumstances, by Mr. O'Connell's own act. I might, to be sure, have resisted it ; but I could hardly have been expected to take so decided a line against the urgent recommendation of the counsel whose share it was to speak to the evidence and to the jury. Judge Vandeleur, however,who was trying the case, expressed his opinion of the proceeding so as no legal man could mistake it, by saying " it should have been allowed to go to the jury." And what ensued? I merely obtained by all my trouble, anxieties, and expense, the conviction of three perjured wretches from the dregs of society (for two were acquitted)—who were mere tools in that infa mous business : and when the result of that trial was to be transferred and criticised by the Ecclesiastical Court in Eng land, the moral effect of the acquittal of the agent was the white-washing of the principal, and thus Mr. O'Connell, against the conviction of every one who heard the trial, and who knew of the affair at the time, is now, in consequence of his own act, enabled to volunteer to resuscitate this shocking affair, and to say in the House of Commons, that he may blacken me, " the lady is blameless." I never could have conceived the disastrous effect which the step he had advised would have had upon me. Ilad he but permitted the effect of what OP a ac tually performed and done to take place, the whole fabric of the matter which now gives Mr. O'Ccnnell his exultation would have been cast the other way. The charges of cruelty ( which could never stand the test of a trial at common law, when the witnesses were examined viva voce, and their faces seen in the day light), when put to that ordeal would have been scouted out of Court, as they have been laughed at by almost every one whom the process of time and other events have undeceived upon the subject. That this must have been :he result could not have been hid from one of Mr. O'Con- ne!l's legal acumen; but 1, little thinking that following his treacherous advice was to fasten nearly ten years' more litiga tion upon me, wrote him a letter of thanks for doing merely his duty as to the conviction of the rest. Then I shall be asked with what motive do I now charge Mr. O'Connell for taking the step he did. lam convinced he zeas I i idly bribed to do it. It was, towards me, an act of treachery, of which, at the time it was committed, I could nit hale sip owed any human berg csrable; bnt the pres sure which 1 have endured in consequence of it, and the de velopmer4 of his chararcter for scoundretsm 'n the turpitude of his political life since, has convinced me he was not only capable of it, but that it is eminently in consonance with the nature of the man. Did he not receive money for supporting the factory Bill, and did he or did he not acquit himself for his wages? Did he not solemnly go up to the table from his place in the House, and adjure his God to the denial of a fact which every dispassionate person in the House and all Ireland now knows to be true ? Did he not in the hearing of Captain Vignoles and of two officers of the 71st regiment, now ready to substantiate the fact, in a speech at Carlow thus deliver himself :_. " Men of Carlosv, are you ready ?—( Aye, aye.) I am the last man to recommend the shedding of one drop of blood ; but we have tried every means of attaining our just rights, and they have failed. We have no course left now but that which I have hitherto deprecated—the shedding of blood ; blood must be shed." And he has had the impudence since to try and extricate himself by a brazen denial, and nothing else. These three matters, selected from the annals of the infamous political life of the national incendiary, are my proofs of what the man is capable of. The facts of my own case, which I have referred to, bad as they are, never should have been mentioned by me, but for the gratuitous attack lately made by the fellow in the House of Commons. They refer to other parties, and, all considered, it must have been my natural wish to let the matter sleep. No other consideration should have induced me thus far to revive them. Good-feeling commanded that I should not do so, but I am not permitted so to act. The public have heard that Mr. O'Connell has lately had the option of stepping in upon the judicial bench. I cannot credit it to be possible, that any British Minister would be so bold as to recommend to his Sovereign that a man implicated as Mr. O'Connell is, should be so raised ; above all, I will not believe Lord Melbourne would think of such a thing. Our illustrious Sovereign must be first studiously blinded as to the past history of tho man, or such an appointment could never happen. Lord Melbourne is not, in my opinion, a man to go twat length, or, on the other band, to admit that any mere expediency could justify such an experiment on the public endurance. I have learnt by report (for I was not in London) that the ruffian ventured to present himself at Court. I learnt also that a Prince of the Blood, in the presence of the Sovereign, forgot himself so far as to shake bands with this common blackguard. I cannot believe it. But if it be really fact, and that it was done for the assertion of a principle, methinks it would have been more consistent and generous in his Royal Highness to have taken some practicable mode of showing his countenance to the object of it during one of the late reigns, because then Mr. Daniel O'Connell was struggling against the presumption of success in his project of dismembering and revolutionising these dominions. The dunghill demagogue had not assumed the garb of a cour tier in the times of George IV. or of the late King; and although he " God-blessed " his late Majesty to satiety while the Reform Bill was in progress, yet he did not make up his mind that matters were ripe for his appearance at Court in the late reign : therefore, the salutation by hand could not well have happened in the Royal presence then ; but, for consistency sake, this distinguished privilege might have been accorded elsewhere, though it certainly was not. But now, when the reviler of the Saxons for a quarter of a century, and of their women especially, pro duces his potato-plebeian-face at the court of the Queen of the Sixons—i,t the Court o f nor most (=rat-Anus Que2o , a Pri nce of the . Biuod steps out to offer an insult, thend presence of th e Sovereign, to every lady in England and every gent l eman i n Ireland, by forcing the di st i nc tion of familiarity up on this vagabond —upon the greatest trading . liar that was ever trained by the Jesuits or cursed the earth —aye, upon the very pivot of treason and disaffection , —upon the fostering parent of perjury and Irish demorali zation. I treat it as a fable. It could not have passed. But again, I say if it did, inasmuch as I know that that illustrious Prince has, out of an enlarged benevolence, be queathed his royal body for dissection after death, I recom mend that he should anticipate the entire gift so humanely intended, and cut off the hand which was so defiled, that he may entitle himself to appear again in the presence of his abused Sovereign and niece, and also learn from she sur geons who hare to analyse that dishonoured limb, the amount of the defilement incurred, that his Royal Highness may repent in proportion, before increased mischief is generated from so foul an example. The fate of Egalite is pregnant with counsel against such like associations. Fellow coutitryrne,n, electors, repudiate the monster ; if ru be Roman Catholics, he cannot be a friend to your re ligion if he dishonours your country ; if you be Protestant, he has planned your destruction. Send him back to Kerry-- the Kerry men have guaqed him, and let these send the petti fogger to Parliament if they will. Mr. O'Connell will possibly, however, inquire again after your suffrages. If so, pause, and at least reflect that if he has not been long since on the felon scaffjld, it i s on ly be cause he lacked the courage ; but remember, he has seat hundreds of others to an untimely end since his career began, and reflect also, that his black, brooding heart inevitably will deluge this island in blood, by setting man against man within it, unless it pleases Providence to open the eyes of our Sovereign to the mischief which is hatching by his contrivance, and to awaken you also to your confidence abused by this temroughly profligate adventurer. If this happens, we may yet hope to see " In every honest hand a whip, To lash the rascal naked through the world." I have the honour to be, fellow-countrymen, respectfully your well wisher and obedient servant, WESTMEATH. Clonyn, Castletowndelvin, August 11, 1838. A direct intercourse has been opened between Limerick and London. The first steam-packet sailed this day. ORANGE ANNIVERSARY.--The 12th of August, the anni versary of the siege of Derry, was celebrated in the maiden city with a great share of the usual triumphant rejoicings. The arch at the entrance of the Church-yard was decorated with orange lilies, and the bells played party tunes through out the day. There was, however, fortunately no dis tubrbance. COMBINATION.--A serious affray arising out of combination, took place in Limerick, on Monday. Some carpenters who did not belong to " the body," were attacked by a party of the " united carpenters," and beaten very severely. One man, named William Green, was struck on the head and cut in a desperate manner. The assailants are known, and will be brought to justice. THE HARVEST.—A quantity of new oatmeal of the primest quality was shipped from Drogheda for Lit erpool on Monday. This would indicate an earlier harvest than was generally an ticipated. The Dublin Registry is at present proceeding very drowsily. The numbers admitted are few, and the victory is alternately with the Liberals and Tories, with astonishing regularity. Unless Mr. O'Connell succeeds in banishing the apathy which at present exists, the Reformex-i will have gained no accession of strength by the present session. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S—YESTERDA Y . The betting was slack, and is further paralysed by the doubt which hangs over Grey Momus as to whether he will go to Don caster or not ; until that is cleared up his price must be regulated by the temerity of his backers, which at present consist mainly of the public. A rather dull afternoon closed as under THE ST. LEGEE. 4 to 1 agst Colonel Peel's lon—taken 4 to 1 agst Lord Chesterfield's Don John—taken 7 to 1 agst Mr. Parkins s Lanercost 9 to I agst Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Coombe's Cobham—taken 12 to 1 agst Mr. Bowes's Appleton Lad—taken 20 to / agst Mr. Fox's Jemmy Jumps 30 to 1 agst Major Yarburgh's Easter 40 to 1 agst dlr. Fairlie's The Hydra—taken 40 to 1 agst Lord G. Bentinck's D'Egville 100 to 40 agst Grey Momus and Lanereost—taken 12 to 1 agst Talleyrand and Jemmy Jumps—taken 6 to 4 on the field agst two—taken LATE 'ST BETTING AT MANCHESTER. DONCASTER ST. LEGER. e to 2 agst Colonel Peel's lon—take 4 to 1 freely 9 to 2 agst Lord Chesterfield's Don John—taken 100 to 10 agst Lord G. Bentinck's Grey Momus—taken 170 to 20 agst Mr. Parkin's Lanercost—taken 11 to 1 agst Mr. Coombes's Cobham—offered freely 16 to 1 agst Lord Westminster's Albemarle—offered 16 to 1 agst Duke of Cleveland's Alzira—taken 200 to 13 agst Mr. Bowes's Appleton Lad—taken 200 to 4 agst Mr. Thompson's Predictor colt—taken 200 to 6 agst Mr. Thompson's Talleyrand—taken 200 to 4 a!zst ➢lr. Wilkins's Wee Willie—offered 200 to 3 agst Lord G. Bentinck's ; in some instances 100 to 1 betted 200 to 6 agst Major Yarburgb's Easter—offered 200 to b agst Mr. Fairlie's The Hydra—offered. WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.—TUESDAY. (CONCLUDED.) The Borough Members' Plate of 60 sore., for all ages. Heats, twice round and a distance. The winner to be sold for 250, &c. Mr. Topham's br. h. Drone, 3 yrs, 7st Mr. Marshall's b. h. Altamont, 6 yrs, 9st. 41b 4 1 2 Mr. Dawson's ch. f. Primefit, 3 yrs, 6st. lllb .. 5 2 dr Mr. Bradley's b. h. Exorable, 5 yrs, Bst. Mb 2 dr WEDNESDAY, The Wrottesley Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 20 added, for three • • • - and four vrs old. Once round. 3 Subs. Mr. Price's ch. 1. Zillah, by Reveller, 3 yrs, 7st. Ilb Neale 1 Cololonel Anson's br. f. Tramp, dam Florestine, 4 yrs, Bst. Ilb. 2 Mr. E. Peel's ch. c. The Early Bird, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b 3 A Stakes of 30 sovs. each, 20 ft. for foals of 1835. Once round. Mr. Price's ch. f. Zillah, Bst. 31b walked over The Holyoake Stakes of 20 sows. each, 10ft., with the Stand Purse of 50 sovs. added. The second to save his stake. Twice round and a distance. 33 Subs.. 18 of whom paid 5 soya. each. Mr. FOW ler's br. h. Heron 5 vrs, Bst. 61b... ...Dodgson 1 Lord Eglinton's br. c. St. !Martin, 3 yrs, 7st 2 Mr. Speed's gr. g. Isaac, aged, Ist. 71b 3 Mr. Painter's Matadore, 6 yrs, 7st. 121 b 4 The followin g a l so started, but were not placei :—Mr. G. Cook's Red Rover, aged, Bst. 4113 ; Mr. Robertson's Whaley, 5 yrs, 7st. 51b ; and Lord Aiiltown's Cruiskeen, 4 yrs, 7st. The Himley Park Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added, for the beaten horses. Heats, once round. Captain Lamb's Metal, 4 yrs, Sat Marlow 3 1 1 Lord Miltown's ch. h. Cushneiche, 5 yrs, Bst. 91b Lord Warwick's b. c. Puffendorf, 3 yrs, 6st. 101 b 1 2 3 GLOUCESTER RACES.—TuEsDA r. The Uoucester Stakes of 20 sovs. each, 10 ft., and only 5, &c., with :30 added from the Fund; the second to save his stale. 24 Subs., 15 of whom declared. Two miles. Mr. W. T. Copeland's King Cole, aged, Bst. 41b Marlow 1 Mr. J. Day's Oberon, aged, 7st. 61b Mr. Tomes's Theophilus, aged, 7st. 121 b Won easy. The Beaufort Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added from the Fund. Heats, once round. 4 Subs. Mr. Griffiths's Lugwardine, 4 yrs, Bst. 71b Hardy 1 1 Mr. Tomes's Eliza, 3 yrs, 7st. 41b .... 3 2 Mr. J. Day's Zethus, aged, 9st. 41b 2 dr Won easy. Match, 25 sacs. each.—Mr. S. Dudfield's b. p. beat Mr. C. T. Moore's ch. p. by a neck. LEWES RACES.- IVEDNESDAy. The Lewes Stakes of 20 sovs. eachs 10 ft., and only 5, &c., with 50 added, &c. 22 Subs., of whom 15 declared. Mr. Theobald's Loutherbourg, 4 yrs. Bst. 11b.. ...... Wakefield 1 Mr. J. V. Shelley's b. c. Bay Hampton, 3 yrs, 6st. 71b 2 Mr. Wickham's b. h. Pincher, aged, Bst Won easy. The Cup Stakes of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added by the Hon. C. C. Cavendish and George Darby, Esq., Members for the Eastern Division of the County. The New Course. The winner to be sold for 200. &c. Mr. Shelley's Bay Hampton, 3 yrs, 7st. 91b Wakefield 1 Mr. Shackel's b. m. Magnolia 4 yrs, Bst. 61b 2 Mr. Smith's b. m. Chea c i, 4 yrs, gst. - 101b 3 Won by half a length. The Members' Plate of 50 sous. Mile heats. The winner to be _ _ sold for 150, &c. Mr. Jackson's b. c. Primus, 3 yrs, ist. 21b Cotton 1 2 1 Mr. Sheliey's Bodice, aged, 9st. 10Ib Lord Chesterfield's ch. by Priam, 3 yrs, ist. 21b 3 3 dr Mr. Shackel's b. m. Magnolia, 4 yrs, Bst. 41b First heat won by two lengths, the second by half a length, and the third by a head. HUNTINGDON RACES.-WEDXIVID! r. Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, and 10 added from the Fund, for three yrs old ; colts, Bst. 51b ; and fillies, Bst. 21b. Winners of a Gold Cup, or Cup Stakes, in 1838, 51bs ; of any other Plate or Sweepstakes, 31bs. extra. The winner of the Cup Stakes or a Plate this week, 51bs. in addition. The winner to be sold fer 300 sows &c. Heats, once round. 8 Subs. Col. Peel's b. c. I-am-not-aware, 3 yrs v Nat 1 1 Mr. G. Edwards's b. f. Cheverl4:!, 3 yrs 2 2 There are forty subscribers for the Brighton Stakes for 1839 and the new club which has lately been formed for the promotion of the races numbers ninety-six already. The members consist of gentlemen of the Jockey Club. Lord John Russell left town yesterday afternoon for the Isle of Wight. Viscount Howick left town yesterday morning. ROBBERY IN A DWELLING HOUSE.— A young man, named William Hotham, was yesterday examined at the Mansion House, and remanded, on a charge of_ having stolen several articles of plate and other valuables from the house of Sir Giffin Wilson, of No. 0, Stratford-place, Oxford-street. Prisoner was apprehended in consequence of the suspicions of a pawnbroker in Bishopsgate-street , to whom he offered in pledge some of the stolen property. AN OLD TRICK.—A fellow named Phi pps was iwct yesterday committed for trial fr om Union• hall on a charge of t h e a n v c i e n g o f p L u t n a d k e i r n e g d c a a rsee, of sea " up in a piece of paper , and itdepositing in complainant's pocket. Prisoner is a person of plausible manners, and by m th n e a pmreodpetay Dale efor of 91. 91. by under ppra a wrapping wearing on his dress buttons similar to those used by Custom house officers is supposed to have defrauded many seamen. CAB RUFFIANISM. — Two young cab-drivers were er and their comm itted from the Ma nsion-hous e y esterda y in default of bail, for having violentl y assaul t ed Mrs. S y monds, the daugh atenrotohfetr d he e o c n e n e et female. celebrated e Daniel feu o M w e s nd d o e z l a ib , the atelpyuglielfitst, cabs and attacked the woman in a most wanton manner. The Lord Mayor declared that the defendants should be certainl y p ro secuted, and regretted to be obliged to say that it to him as if cab-owners in Looking for drivers appeare d uniformly made exceptions to any but blackguards. Vil• fon' gq.• [ of 9 . jet' [4o' )ot v -el o eV e 0 I 1 366 .0 0. ;01" ;7 13 ' t fo r , o tbc ith4